Windrower.



110321394 I PATENTED MAY'29,,1906.

L. FR ANZMEIER.

WINDROW ER. APPLICATION FILED MARL13. 1606.

Urrnn 'sr arse earner 'FWOE,

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed March 3, 90 erial No.249.732.

Patented May 29, 1906.

To all] who? it may concern:-

I Be it known that 1, Louis FRANZMEIER, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of'N'ewton, in the county of Manitowoc and State ofWisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inWindrowers and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear,and exact description 1 dicates a her having clips I) in connection'thereof.

My invention has for its object to provide simple, economical, andefficient side-delivery windrowers especially designed as attachmentsfor mowing-machines employed to cut pea-vines; andit consists in certainpeculiarities of construction and combination of arts hereinafterparticularly set forth reference to the accom anying drawings andsubsequently claimed? Figure 1 of the drawings represents a plan. v1ewof a side-delivery windrower in accordancewith my invention; Fig. 2,asectional view of the same on the plane indicate by line 2 2 in Fig. 1,and Fig.3 a rear elevation of one of the slats of the windrower.

' Referring by letter to the drawings, A intherewith for attachment tothe rear of a finger-bar of a mowihg-maclflne. At intervals of itslength. the bar A isprovided with slots, and slats are recurved at theirforward ends through the slots in said bar. Hence no riveting srequiredfor connecting the bar and slats. The slats are bent ad acent tothe bar Ato drop their horizontal portions a suitable distance below thesame, and out pea vines coming over said bar get a better grip on theground to insure rolling of a windrow.

The slats are of gradually-increasing length,

the outermost slat B being the shortest and referably divergent in arearward direction" The rear ends of all the slats are shown forwardlybowed,

rom the one next adjacent.

inwardly inclined, and u wardly bent. Fig. 3 illustrates the inwardinclination of one of the slats, and by having the bows of all the slatsinwardly inclined the pea-pods catching on their edges will movefreely'with a rolling mass of vines, so as not to be severed from thesame, the rear ends of said slats being also preferably upwardly bent toprevent severing of pods fr'om vines caught in the windrower to berolled out from the inner side of same. While the inwardly inclining ofthe bowed ends'of the slats is preferable, it is not absolutelyessential as a detail of my invention.

' ters Patent, is-

,i ng forwardly-bowed rear ends; and a plate The longest slat C iscrossed on the slats D E, and an upper triangular plate F, riveted tothe horizontal portions of the slats C D .back of the inner end of thebar A, prevents catching and clogging of the windrow. Hence ready of thebowed rear ends of the crossed slats O E, and these slats are bothdivergent from the slat D, on which the one C is also crossed, but theslats between the one D and the outermost slat- B are approximatelyparallel. The aforesaid dis osition of the innermost slats insures afurlilierrolling of the windrow in the proper direction to insure goodclearance for the next time around of the mowingmachine to which thewindrower is attached.

Having thus described my invention, what I claimas new, and desire .tosecure by Let- I. 'A windrower comprising a "bar for attaclnnent to therear of the finger-bar of a mowing-machine, slats having their forwardends fastened to thebar first aforesaid and rearwardly extended on ahorizontal plane below the same, the outermost slat being the shortest,the others of gradually-increasing length, the longest crossed on thenext two, the'lat'ter being rearwardly divergent from continuedclearance of said windrow is insured. There is a dlvergence one anotherand all of them having forwardly-bowed rear ends; and a plate surmountinthe horizontal portions of the crossed s ats.

2. A windrower comprising a bar'for attachment to the rear of thefinger-bar of a mowing-machine, slats having their forward ends fastenedto the bar first aforesaid and rearwardly extended on a horizontal planebelow the same, the outermost'slat being the shortest and rearwardlydivergent from'the one next outermost, the others of graduallyincreasinglength, the longest crossed on the next two, the latter being rearwardlydiveroent from one another and all of them-havsurmounting the horizontalportions 0 the crossed slats.

In testimony that I claim the foregoingl have hereunto set my hand, atNewton, n the county of Manitowoc and State of vVVlsconsin, in thepresence of two w tnesses.

LOUIS ERANZMEIER.

Witnesses: l

J C. WILLINGER, P. J. MOMAEOK.

